Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1892 — 1,400.000 BALLOTS [ARTICLE]

1,400.000 BALLOTS

Primed for tha Coming EleetSUl—Do(erlption of the Tickets. State Printing Clerk Stein is engaged In getting ready the wrappers for covering the three thousand bundles of ballots for the voters of Indiana. “It is a mistake to say that I will ex press the ballots. That is just what Ido not do,” said Mr. Stein;, “the county clerks come and get them, not earlier than sixteen days nor later than ten days before election.” Should some of the county clerks fall to come within the specified tlmo, a special sworn messenger will carry the ballots to them. Each bundle of ballots will he sealed* and a large label in yellow and black pasted upon it reading os follows: Do not break seal. Cut string here.” Ballots to the number of 1,400,00 hays been ordered. That will loave a surplus with the State printer adequate for emergencies. Tho ballots are printed on medium weight pink paper, twenty-nine inches long by ten inches wide. There are the four tickets on them, with places for thirty-four names each, in this order: Presidential elec tors-at-large in numerical order, Governor and other State candidates in the usual order. Tho ballots will be stamped with what is technically known as a “spoke-wheel stamp,” In purple luk, and this Is given ai good advice for evory voter to paste in his hat: “If you vote the straight ticket, stamp a corner of the square at the top of the ticket. But If you vote a mixed ticket stamp each name you vote for. Yon might as well throw your yote in White river at to make any mistake in your ticket,” Pretty table mats on which to set hot dishes may be made of chamois skin fastened to a stiff piece of pasteboard. Cut the skin round or oval and scallop or pink the edges. Cut a pasteboard the same shape, only enough smaller so that the scallops of the chamois skin will project and cover the pasteboard. Fasten the chamois skin to the pasteboard. It may be lettered or etched with indelible ink. We heard a woman say recently that it always flatters a man to call him Colonel. Many men who cannot be managed in any other way can be managed if you call them Colonel.